Process for transferring newspaper and other printed matter.



"UNTTED STATES ATENT FFTQE WTLLlAMF. BARRETT, OF CHTCAGO, lLLlNOlS, SSTGNUR T@ 'THE C. H. FULLER.- COMPANY., F GHICAG, lLLlNOlS, A CURPRATTN @ll nemers.

vPROCESS Eer niANsrERmNe NEWSPAPER AND OTHER PRINTED MATTER.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented aug. ai9 ieee.

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, WILLIAM F. BARRETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Processes for Transferring Newspaper and other Printed Matter, of which the following is a specification.

Tt is desirable for many uses and purposes to obtain a reproduction of a newspaperfari ticle or other printed matter direct from the newspaper-clipping or other print. The reproduction should be readable and perfect in every particular and should also be made in u such manner as not vto injure or renderillegible the original cli ping or print.

The object of the present invention is to enable a transfer or reproduction of an original print whether from a newspaper or other printed matter to be made and this without destroying the original article and to have the reproduction or transfer legible and perfect. This object is attained by the transfer rocess hereinafter more particularly descri ed, and pointed out in the claims-as new.

Tn the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of pressure-rollers adapted to be used in the resent invention; Fig. 2, an end View of Fig. l, showing the means for suitably positioning the rollers; and Fig. 3, a cross-sectional view showing the relation of the rollers with respect to the Celluloid strips.

ln carrying out the .present process any suitable means adapted to produce a slight pressure will be satisfactory; but for the salie of convenience impression-rollers A are shown, being properly mounted in end pieces B, said end pieces having adjusting mechanism preferably consisting of spiral springs C, adapted to be regulated by means of thumb-nuts D. These rollers are preferably made ofsteel, although any other suitable material may be employed, and the exact sition between them can be easily varied oy regulating the thumb-nuts D, as shown.A Although the drawings show a handle il, in actual operation it is found more convenient to employ the use of. a motor. The rollers, it will be understood, are adjusted with respect to one another so as to produce sufficient pressure upon the strips of Celluloid F for the purpose intended. Tn constructing the rollers inner hub portions G are used.

`run or passed under The process asa whole embodies three steps or basic operations. .The first step consists in immersing an ordinary newspaper print or clipping or other printed matter in a solution of vary in strength according to the characteristics andnatural properties of the ink thereon. Where the ordinary and average kind of ink is used l find that a solution of arnmonia of specific gravity of 0.9, diluted with one-half its weight in pure water, givesmost satisfactor results. The clipping or print from whic a reproduction or transfer is to ammoniay solution of the proper strength and then withdrawn and the sur lus water allowed to dri off,- after which t e clip ing is laid upon t e polished surface of a s eet of celluloid. The surface of the celluloid sheet prior to placing the clipping. `or rinted matter thereon is smeared or covere with a thin-film of wan made of twenty .per cent.

of beeswax to eighty per cent.- of muttontallow. After the clipping has been laid on the wax surface of the under celluloidsheet a second duplicate sheet of Celluloid is laid over the clip ing and the two sheets of celluloid with *elle clipping between them are geared rollers and subjected to a gentle pressure. This constitutes the second step or o eration of the process and serves to bring Orth or produce an impression or reversed imprint of the clipping orprint on the wax surface. The upper sheet of Celluloid and the clipping or print are removed, leaving expesed the impression or reversed imprint on the wax surace of the under sheet or plateof celluloid, A. sheet of machine-finished paper is laid over the impression or reversed imprint on the wax surface and the upper sheet of celluloid is placed thereon, after which the two sheets dilute ammonia which can be made is immersed for a few seconds in the a considerably-increased pressure in com-- parison with the first passage through the rolls to produce the im rint. The passa e of thetwo sheets of cel uloid with the sheet of paper between them and overlying the impression or reversed imprint on the wax results in transferring a complete reprint of the original clipping or print which will be an exact duimpression or reversed of clippin s or or print. lf desired or necessary,

' the sur plicate of the original cli ping or print and can be read as easily as t e origin clipping one transfer .or reproduction of the clipping or rint can be made from the impression.

'fhe process enables commercially perfect transfers or reproductions to be made from prints of any kind, andeven so where colors or half-tones are used. The processenables a clear reprint or transfer to be obtained from the nest t e, and though the-impression is reverse the transfer or reprint will read forward precisely `the same as. the original clipping or print. The process enables the supplyiof news items in the shape otherwise to be doubled or even treb ed, and this Without destroying the original clipping or print.

What l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The process herein described of making transfers or reprints from an original print, one step of which consists in transferring to ace of a waxed plate the print in a reverse condition, substantially as described.

2. ril`he process of making transfers or reprints from' originals, which consists in dipping the original rint in a solution of ammonia, thereby softening the ink, placing the original with the ink thereon softened on the surface of a waxed plate to transfer the ink more than from the original to the wax surface of said plate in reversed condition and then placing a sheet of plain paper over the wax impres-A sion and transferring the print from said plate to the sheet of paper, substantially as described.

3.' The process of making transfers or reprints from an original print, which consists I sheet having a prepared wax surface for taking the ink of the original when the same are pressed together, thereby forming on the Wax surface an impression, and placing on the waxed platea plain sheet for transferring to the plain sheet the print on the waxed plate, substantially as described. Y

. WILLIAM F. BARRETT. 

